Hey! Where are the death panels?

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Jan 2, 2014 at 12:10 PMJan 2, 2014 at 4:01 PM

Ed Kilgore NAILS IT:

It was a snarky throwaway comment from Wonkblog’s Evan Soltas at the beginning of a long post on the first full day of Obamacare implementation, but an important point nonetheless: “[F]irst day of Obamacare, zero death panels so far.”

We sometimes forget that the popularity of the Affordable Care Act has been affected not just by the sort of breathless minute-by-minute assessment of the law’s implementation we’ve been treated to since October, and the complaints of this or that interest group focused on the injustices allegedly meted out to this or that sub-population, but also ...

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Ed Kilgore NAILS IT:

It was a snarky throwaway comment from Wonkblog’s Evan Soltas at the beginning of a long post on the first full day of Obamacare implementation, but an important point nonetheless: “[F]irst day of Obamacare, zero death panels so far.”

We sometimes forget that the popularity of the Affordable Care Act has been affected not just by the sort of breathless minute-by-minute assessment of the law’s implementation we’ve been treated to since October, and the complaints of this or that interest group focused on the injustices allegedly meted out to this or that sub-population, but also ...